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Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom
UK Telegraph ^ | 10 May 16 | Telegraph Reporters

Posted on 05/10/2016 6:51:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion

(Title was shortened. Add: "of the night sky from his bedroom ")

A Canadian schoolboy appears to have discovered a lost Mayan city hidden deep in the jungles of Mexico using a new method of matching stars to the location of temples on earth.

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of known Mayan cities.

And then he made a startling realisation: the two appeared to be linked.

“I was really surprised and excited when I realised that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,” he told the Journal de Montréal.

In hundreds of years of scholarship, no other scientist had ever found such a correlation.

Studying 22 different constellations, William found that they matched the location of 117 Mayan cities scattered throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

(Cont'd at link)

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; godsgravesglyphs; maya; mayan; mayans; mayas; stars; williamgadoury
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

But I’ll bet he’s not the first to see it...or find that city. Some things you keep to yourself.


41 posted on 05/10/2016 7:58:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Buttons12

Correct on Graham Hancock


42 posted on 05/10/2016 7:59:57 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: kiryandil

Cities are laid out topographically...strategically along travel routes. But you have to work with what you have. You need food, shelter and clothing.....and water, water, water....


43 posted on 05/10/2016 8:02:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BipolarBob

44 posted on 05/10/2016 8:02:16 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: Sacajaweau

See my post #19. The young lad was working from a certain hypothesis.


45 posted on 05/10/2016 8:03:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: BipolarBob

The only thing soebarkah has taught me is that he is an enemy islamist pig-dog.


46 posted on 05/10/2016 8:04:41 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: arthurus

They were using the Hubble. It was called “The Rubble” back in those days...


47 posted on 05/10/2016 8:05:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: arthurus
Exactly.....The kid created his own anomaly.

Betcha 1000 to 1, plenty of people have ransacked the site.

48 posted on 05/10/2016 8:05:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: USNBandit

He’ll come out as transgender for the AAA+...


49 posted on 05/10/2016 8:07:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: Wilhelm Tell

LOL! They was ahead of their time. :)


50 posted on 05/10/2016 8:08:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

The story doesn’t explain everything. Was it the place where the star passed over at midnight? On a certain day of the year? That changes with time, though. Need the New York Times for this kind of stuff, about the only thing they’re good for.


51 posted on 05/10/2016 8:13:22 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

While other Canadian kids were thinking about becoming president...of the USA


52 posted on 05/10/2016 8:14:07 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: onedoug

Wasn’t it the last, great Rodney Dangerfield who once said “The definition of trust is two cannibals having oral sex”.


53 posted on 05/10/2016 8:15:13 PM PDT by RightWingNut
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Bkmk


54 posted on 05/10/2016 8:16:51 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Wow. Kid had a genuine "Aha!" moment.

I'm a little surprised than an expedition is not already being planned. If the place is THAT remote, it makes you wonder about who might (still) be living there.

55 posted on 05/10/2016 8:18:20 PM PDT by TChad
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

An abominable thing.


56 posted on 05/10/2016 8:25:57 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: firebrand

Also, over time the stars have changed position, even relative to each other. Polaris was not the North Star 2000+ years ago. I’ll have to check it to see if it makes a difference.


57 posted on 05/10/2016 8:28:00 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: onedoug
An abominable thing.

I don't know if that is universally true. For example, suppose you are in the Donner party. Your fellow members die of cold. You are starving.

I think I'm OK with that. "They" are long gone. Only the body remains. Life or death.

58 posted on 05/10/2016 8:29:23 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: raybbr

Google Maps?


59 posted on 05/10/2016 8:35:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

SO you would compare what these savages did with that?

Though God help me that I wouldn’t do it.


60 posted on 05/10/2016 8:36:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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